1381918 - Better UI for markdown files

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools :: Searchfox, enhancement)

Description

[Bill McCloskey [inactive unless it's an emergency] (:billm)]

A nice feature of Searchfox is that it renders Markdown .md files:

        https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/addon-sdk/source/README.md

However, when you view the rendered document there is no
‘Navigation’ sidebar like there is on other files, with
‘Permalink’, ‘Log’, and ‘Blame’ tools.  Also the search
bar and bread crumb path links disappear.

This is a bit of a problem because I often have a need to get a
README.md’s permalink.  Do you also think it would be possible to
render .md files “in view” instead of as a completely separate
document?  If it is, it would also be useful with a link to display
the raw file.

Comment 1

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1417222

Comment 2

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Now that we don't render .md and .rst files by default, a "better UI" basically means adding a link to a rendered view. Github renders these file types by default so we can just link to that.

Comment 3

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

https://github.com/mozsearch/mozsearch/pull/210

Comment 4

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Deployed